• Lunchtime Discussion with Andrew Zolli & Trevor Hammond, Planet

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Join us on Wednesday, 3/6 at 12pm for a lunchtime discussion with Andrew Zolli from Planet, a satellite image provider. Remote sensing dates back to the 1858, when cameras were

  • Measuring Crime: Behind the Statistics

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Abstract: In 1915, the Chicago City Council asked statistician Edith Abbott to report “upon the frequency of murder, assault, burglary, robbery, theft and like crimes in Chicago." Her report, drawing

  • Magic Grant Information Session

    Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

    We’ll go over a brief overview of the Brown Institute’s history and work, and give an outline of  our Magic Grants program and policies. Open office hours will also be

  • Visual Literacy Module II

    607C in Pulitzer Hall, Columbia University

    The Brown institute is offering a three-session workshop on Visual Literacy, designed for journalism students to build vocabularies and practical skills around visual design through lectures, discussions, and hands-on sessions.

  • Magic Grant Information Session

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Are you passionate about the role that emerging technologies can play in the future of media? Do you have a story that can only be told using technology outside the

  • Mapping Module 5 – Recreating a Map from the News

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    News unfolds in places and every newsworthy event is shaped by the details of location. Those details might include the specifics of a neighborhood as it is today or of

  • Visual Literacy Module III

    607C in Pulitzer Hall, Columbia University

    The Brown institute is offering a three-session workshop on Visual Literacy, designed for journalism students to build vocabularies and practical skills around visual design through lectures, discussions, and hands-on sessions.

  • Columbia Music Scholarship Conference

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    The Columbia University Graduate Program in Music presents its annual conference on the topic: "Sound in Struggle: Audible Resistances." Join us for a day of panels on the place of

  • Art of Data Conference

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    The Art of Data conference is an annual gathering of researchers, practitioners, artists, and journalists, to discuss issues related to data, cities, and visualization. It is organized by the Columbia

  • Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Dr. Gina Helfrich

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Join or Die: The Future of Computational Innovation and the End of the Academy as We Know It Academia presently faces an existential crisis. Tenure-track positions are shrinking. Adjunct positions

  • Transparency Series Workshop: Drone Photography

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Drones can provide access to regions that are otherwise impossible to film. The artful, informative deployment of drone photography and its role in journalism is the subject of this Transparency

  • Journalism & Design: A Mini-Conference

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    The Brown Institute for Media Innovation and the Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism bring you this mini-conference of designers, illustrators, and visualizers to talk about the work they do, how

  • Brown Institute Welcomes Technology Journalist Kara Swisher

    McCaw Hall, Arrillaga Alumni Center 326 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA, United States

    Brown welcomes technology journalist Kara Swisher, co-founder of Recode and a contributing writer to The New York Times Opinion Section. She previously wrote for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, and served as co-executive editor of All Things Digital.

  • Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Dr. Fernando Perez

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    At 4:00 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month in the Brown Institute for Media Innovation (2nd Floor, Pulitzer Hall), the Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation series will highlight

  • Brown Institute and Tow Center Welcome Mixer

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    The Brown Institute and Tow Center serve as a digital hub at the school, researching and building the future of journalism. Join us in the Brown Institute to meet with

  • Media Innovation Lectures

    Gates 174, 353 Serra Hall, Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

    The goal of this series is to introduce students interested in Computer Science, Engineering and Media to what's possible and probable when it comes to media innovation. Speakers from multiple